Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-17

was panic, the great wheat clique being
utterly demon allied. Three failures were
caused by the decline at Milwaukee.
1t is asserted that the Pennsylvania Pan
Handle robberies are being duplicated on
the Texas and Pacific. Detectives at work
on the cases have caused the arrest of two
brakemen who have homes in Fort Worth
Thursdays celebration at Finlay. o.,
of the discovery of natural gas in the
State was attended by 10000 people
There were speeches by Senator Sherman,
Coy. Foraker, Murat IIalstead and others.
\ statement was published at Washing
ton the other day claiming to give the
standing of the United States supreme
court on the telephone cases "a to 2
against Bell. This is of course without
authority.
The refusal of the New York emigra-
ton commission to permit Il emigrants
to land because their fares were paid by
the British government is pronounced
illegal by Judge Bacon of the United
States district court.
John Russell Young. ex-United States
minister to China. was elected president
of the antipoverty society of Philadelphia
(the Henry George party Monday night,
in place of w. j. Atkinson. who resigned
to give place to Mr.. Young.
Massachusetts is to receive S12.9O3,
Connecticut and Maine each S5529 and
New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Yer
mont each S3GSG of the 500, 900 appropri-
ated by Congress to provide arms and
equipments for the militia.
Three thousand post-masters from all
over the United States have decided to
hold an annual convention at Washington
in December to urge upon Congress
legislation increasing the salaries of post
masters and changes in the classification
in mail matter.
The contract by the navy department
with the Bethlehem Iron company of
Pennsylvania for steel for guns and
armor plate for the new cruisers. amount
ing to about $1,000 900. is the largest sin
gle contract ever made by the federal
government.
Peter Bitters. a colored eX-convict. as
saulted Mrs. Martha Thomas. an aged
colored woman. at Jamestown. o.. so
brutally Saturday night that she died of
her injuries. Bitters was lynched by
mob just after midnight Monday morning
at the fairgrounds.
United States Consul Eckstein at
Amsterdam. in report to the department
of state upon the acquisition of land in
Sumatra by foreigners. notes "a an inter
esting fact that the two principal compa-
MES in Holland engaged in the culture of
tobacco in Sumatra have Just declared
yearly dividends amounting to l0sb per
cent.
The llavemeyer Sugar Refining COM
pany. whose houses at Greeh Point l.. l.,
were burned Saturday morning, are
thought to have lost fully 81 .15O. 900. The
buildings. which covered nearly half an
acre of ground. were of brick. six. eight
and ten stories in height. The lO-storv
structures We're erected five years ago at
a cost of 100000.
y sensation has been caused at Mime
apolis by the publication of Il letter from
former policeman. named Grace. in
which he makes serious charges against
Mayor Ames. Grace says: Il have been
/ "a s.nI i'm half Inzan
saloon keepers. who showed me receipts
from the mayors officials for money paid
in lieu of license. In some cases they
paid as high as $500
When Capt Thomas Phelan of Kansas
City, Mo-, was stabbed in O'Donovan
Rossa's office in New Iork two years ago,
he had an accident policy for $1,000 in the
Travellers insurance company. The COM
pany refused to pay the money on the
ground that Phelan had provoked the as
sault by going to Rossa's office. Phelan
sued the company and was awarded
Judgment Saturday for the full amount.
The navy department has ordered
court of inquiry to ascertain the circum-
stances of the death of Lieut.. Clark on
board the United States steamer Iroquois.
The department is perfectly satisfied that
Lieut.. Clark died by his own hand. hut
the court is ordered because the unfortu-
nate mans father persists in the belief
that his son was MISUNDERSTANDING that
he saw the murder in dream.
y drop of 27O points III June coffee and
heavy declines for other months caused Il
panic in the coffee exchange at New
York on Monday. Wild confusion pre-
vailed and 1000 bags of coffee were
sold, or twice as many as on any previous
day in the history of the exchange. Three
firms suspended in consequence, with liza
biites which are expected to exceed
81 ,000,0 600. On January L, 1855, the price